Securing Biden’s Legacy and What’s Next for the Democrats
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🗓️ 24 November 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:17.0 | Hey, What's News listeners. It's Sunday, November 24th. I'm Charlotte Gartenberg for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:22.6 | This is What's News Sunday, the show where we tackled the big questions about the biggest stories in the news, |
| 0:27.9 | by reaching out to our colleagues across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world. |
| 0:32.8 | This week, as they prepare to leave the White House, President Biden and his administration, |
| 0:37.3 | are rushing to cement his legacy. |
| 0:39.6 | What can they do before Republicans take power? |
| 0:42.0 | And, looking further to the horizon, how might the Democrats find their way back to power? |
| 0:47.1 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:49.9 | On January 3rd, the Democrats' majority in the Senate will end. |
| 0:53.7 | And on January 20th, President Biden will leave the White House. But they're not out yet. Before they go, they're looking to secure his legacy on issues like the environment, infrastructure, diplomacy, and government regulation. So what could be on the chopping block? How might Democrats fight it and what is the Biden administration doing |
| 1:11.2 | to shore up the president's legacy in these final weeks? Here to fill us in on all this is White |
| 1:16.1 | House reporter Annie Lindski. All right, Annie, the administration can't protect everything. |
| 1:21.1 | So what are they looking to protect? From the Biden administration's perspective, they are hoping to |
| 1:26.0 | protect some of the key legacy agenda items that they feel that they have oriented the country and what they think is more solid ground. |
| 1:34.3 | And they point to bringing manufacturing back to the United States, to shoring up supply chains so that component pieces, whether it's in medicine or semiconductors, are being manufactured by allies rather than adversaries. |
| 1:48.6 | And they're hoping to have the country focused in a greener, sustainable economy, which they believe is the wave of the future. |
| 1:56.7 | All right. So sort of a rush to protect that, although it's not only the last couple of weeks. |
| 2:02.3 | How are they doing that? |
| 2:04.5 | The Biden administration officials have known for quite some time that it's possible and, in fact, likely that at least with Joe Biden on the top of the ticket, his election would be very difficult. |
| 2:14.7 | And so they started the work of shoring up various regulations |
| 2:19.3 | back in February, March, April of this year. There was an effort there within agencies |
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